Bar and Brewery Moving in Jacksonville and St. Johns County

The move can’t start until the bar stops pouring. On the final night, bartenders empty the wells, the licensee pulls the alcohol inventory, and the draft tech drains and disconnects the lines. We start carrying once the back-bar is empty and the draft work is out of the way, which usually means a late evening or the next morning.

Jacksonville Beach bars off A1A tend to load from a short alley shared with the next business, and parking there fills early on weekends. Riverside and St. Augustine taprooms often sit in older buildings with narrow rear doors and a step down to the sidewalk. We measure every door on both ends before booking the truck. A tropical system can shut the Beaches for a day at the height of the season, so late-summer bookings carry a spare date.

Bar tops and back-bar faces are usually the most expensive finish in the room, so they’re blanketed and shrink-wrapped before anything moves near them, and cabinet corners get guards before they pass a door frame. Mirrored back panels ride upright in padded crates or cartons, not laid flat.

Wet is the other enemy. A bar floor stays damp after a final shift, so we mop and runner the path before rolling carts. Coolers must be empty and dried before their shelving comes out, and patio pieces are wiped down so sand and salt don’t grind into another piece in the truck. At the new bar, glassware goes straight to the back-bar it belongs to, not a pile in the stockroom.